Nicole Dextras is an environmental artist whose ephemeral works celebrate sustainability and highlight our essential connection to nature. In a series of works entitled “Botanical Wearables,” Dextras offers a creative vision of our relationship to the environment. She creates highly-detailed, couture garments from leaves, flowers, thorns and other plant materials, and uses them to tell stories of a sustainable existence. Built with natural elements, their ever-changing qualities to remind us that life, though fleeting, can be beautiful in all of its stages.
